Inflation valve



19, 1943. W F GQFF INFLATIoN-VALVE Filed Dec.' 16, 1939 2 sheets-sheet 1 Jan. 19, 1943. W.A E. GOFF 2,309,661

INFLATIQN VALVE Filed Dec. 16, 195s 2 sheets-snaai 2 Patented Jan. 19, 1943 l` reen OFFICE william r. dorf, Akrn, ohi0, assignor to The Ohio Injector Company, Wadsworth, Ohio, a

corporation of Ohio Application December 16, 1939, Serial No. 309,664

4 Claims. (Oi. 152-430) This invention relates to valves for inflatable articles, and it has reference particularly to inlation valves for bicycle tires, especially vthose employing inner tubes and casings` or shoes.

The object of the invention is to provide an ination valve having a metal body carrying the valve proper, this body being capable of removal from and replacement in the tire, and being joined huid-tight to the tire by purely mechanical means. Thus the curing or vulcanizing of rubber to metal, now prevalent in assembly of valves with tires and tubes, is made unnecessary, and production facilitated and expedited.

Moreover, the capability of the metal parts of l being removed from and replaced in the tire or tube makes possible the association with any tube of any valve assembly.

rhe invention contemplates an iniiation valve including a metal valve body so shaped as to mechanically interlock with complementally shaped yieldable means of the tire, the body and yieldable means having contacting portions which, upon application of pressure, furnished by an adjustable clamping member applied to the body and bearing against the yieldable means,

' will compress the yieldable means and cause such means to engage the body in a fluid-tight and normally inseparable manner, all as will be explained hereinafter more fully and iinally claimed.

In the accompanying drawings illustrating the invention, in the several iigures of which like parts are similarly designated:

Figure 1 is a top plan View of the yieldable means or pad element carried by the tire or tube or other iniiatable article.

Fig. 2 is a bottom plan view thereof.

Figs. 3 and 4 are sections taken respectively on the lines 3-3 and 4 4 of Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a fragmentary sectional View illustrating a preliminary positionl of assembly of a pad element with respect to a tire or tube.

Fig. 6 is a view similar to Fig. 5 but showing the parts after curing and with the metal valve parts assembled therewith.

Fig. 7 is an enlarged axial sectional elevation of the valve body and the associated parts of the valve proper.

Fig. 8 is an enlarged sectional elevation of the clamping member.

Fig. 9 is a top plan View of the clamping member.

Figs. 10 and 11 are fragmentary sectional views illustrative of the curing or vulcanizing'operations.

Fig. 12 illustrates a modified assembly of, the pad element with a tire tube.

The metal parts of the valve comprise a valve body I, a clamping member ,2 and a rim locking nut 3, these parts being cooperatively assembled, as will be explained hereinafter, with the complementally pre-molded and semi-cured yieldable means'or pad 4 after the pad has been afxed to 'the tire or tube 5 during the curing or vulcanization of the latter, the semi-cured pad,

also` being fully cured during this operation of vulcanization.

The valve body I has a screw threaded stem 0 and a head l, the Same being joined by a shank 8 of reduced diameter which provides shoulders 9 and Iii on the head and stern, respectively, for cooperation with complemental portions of the pad 4.

Valve means proper, including a Valve pin Il with its valve I2 normally seating at I3 in the body, and a valve spring I4 and washer I5, are operatively assembled within and carried bythe body I. The parts of the valve proper, and their mode of assembly are substantially the same as are disclosed in my copending applications Serial No. 275,114, led May 22, 1939, and Serial No. 349,894, led August 2, 1940, and in copending applications of George G. Allenbaugh and Ralph D. Bixler, Serial No. 333,036, led May 2 1940, and Victor M. Weltzien and Ralph D. BiXler, Serial No. 305,160, filed Nov.`18, 1939. f

lThe base I of the body I is formed with an axially out-turned flange I6 forming between it and the wall I'I of the base an annular socket I8 to receive a portion of the yieldable pad 4.

The clamping member 2 is preferably in the form of a nut interiorly screw threaded for cooperation with the screw threads of the stem 6 for adjustment axially thereof, and is provided at its inner face with an axially off-standing peripheral rim I9 to exert compressive clamping pressure upon the outer face of the pad 4.

The rim locking nut 3 may be of any form suitable to bear upon the ,adjacent face of the rim upon which the tire is mounted to thereby hold the valve stem in proper relation to the rim opening, the adjacentvportions of the rim being secured between the outer surface of the clamping member 2 and the Vinner surface of the locking nut 3, as will be apparent.

The yielding means or pad 4 is formed of appropriate vulcanizable rubber compound, and is preferably semi-cured so as to retain its shape and enable it to be employed Without danger of distortion or injury during handling and whileand the bore of said pad being preformed for complemental engagement with said base and shank between said shoulders to provide a separable mechanical connection between the body and pad, said base and the interior surface of said pad being formed for substantially intertting engagement whereby said base embraces and connes the truncated end of the pad, and said clamping member being axially adjustable upon said stem for engaging the exterior surface of the pad and thus serving by application of clamping pressure exerted between it and said base to compress the pad into fluid-tight engagement with said shank between said shoulders.

2. Inflation valve means for an inflatable article, such as a tire tube, including yieldable means on a wall of the iniatable article and having a bore and presenting interiorly and eX- teriorly of said wall surfaces complemental to metal parts for duid-tight assembly with said yieldable means, said metal parts including a valve body carrying the valve proper, and a clamping member, said body having a stem passing through the bore of said yieldable means, and a base joined to said stem by a shank of reduced diameter providing opposed shoulders on the base and stem, said yieldable means being provided with an annular lip for compressible engagement with said base, and its bore being preformed for complemental engagement with said base and shank between said shoulders to provide a separable mechanical connection between the body and yieldable means, said base having an axially out-turned flange providing an annular socket embracing said lip, and said clamping member being axially adjustable upon said stem for engaging the exterior surface of the yieldable means, said clamping means serving by application of clamping pressure exerted between it and said base to cause the out-turned ange of said base to deform the annular lip f the yieldable means and radially compress said yieldable means into engagement with said shank and between said shoulders.

3. Inflation valve means for an inflatable article, such as a tire tube, including yieldable means on a ywall of the infiatable article and having a bore and presenting interiorly and exteriorly of said wall surfaces complemental to metal parts for duid-tight assembly with said yieldable means, said metal parts including a valve body carrying the valve proper, and a clamping member, said body having a stem passing through the bore of said yieldable means, and a base joined to said stem by a shank of reduced diameter providing opposed shoulders on the base and stem, and the bore of said yieldable means being preformed for complemental engagement with said base and shank and be- :tween said shoulders to provide a separable mechanicai connection between the body and yieldable means, said base and the interior surface of said yieldable means being formed for substantially interfitting engagement, and said clamping member being axially adjustable upon said stem for engaging the exterior surface of the yieldable means and thus serving by application of clamping pressure exerted between it and said base to compress the yieldable means into fluid-tight engagement with said shank between said shoulders, the yieldable means having upon its exterior surface a compressible bead for cooperation with said clamping member.

4. In iniiation valve means as claimed in claim 3, the clamping member having a rim for embracing and confining said bead, cooperation between said bead and rim serving upon application of clamping pressure to force the yieldable means radially into engagement with said shank and stem.

WILLIAM F. GOFF.

, ERTmIcATE 0F CORRECTION.

Patent No. '2 ,5o9;o61. Januar-7.19, A1915.

WILLIAM F; GoFF.

It is hereby certified @hat error appears 1n the printed s'pecifioatldn of the ab'o'velhumbered patent 'requiring correction as follows: Page 2, second column', line 55, before "'imilar" insert --2'{v'; same line, after opennig" Vseczcnd occurrence, for *27W read Z; and that 'the 'said LettersA 'Patent' should be read with this correction 'therein 'that the same mayconform to the record of the case in the Patent Office.

Signed and sealed this 16th day of March, A'. D 19I-5.

(Seal) Henry Van iraniana,l

Acjsng Commissioner vof Patents 

